John Lasseter, Disney animation chief and Pixar director, had a close friendship with the late Steve Jobs. Their kindred spirits and lust for creative perfectionism helped them to establish Pixar as the world's new animation super power.

In this month's edition of TIME magazine, Lasseter offers a brief but touching article on a few of his learning moments with Jobs and the vision and passion he brought to his creations. While Jobs wasn't named TIME's person of the year, as some had suspected, instead being unseated by a generic embodiment of "The Protestor," this short writeup from Lasseter finds its place in the issue under the "Fond Farewells" feature. TIME did, however, give Jobs significant verbiage in an article of several pages in its October 17th issue (Vol 178, No.15).